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Ruit Oceano Nox

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Peter E. Knox
Peter E. Knox
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Columbia University
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Extract

Night falls on war-weary Troy after a day of celebration, setting the stage for the final agony of the city:

uertitur interea caelum et ruit Oceano nox

inuoluens umbra magna terramque polumque

Myrmidonumque dolos

(Virg. Aen. 2.250–2)

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , May 1989 , pp. 265
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1989

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References

1 Cf., e.g., Austin ad loc: ‘upward motion is meant.’

2 ‘Vergil, , Aeneid 2. 250–2’Google Scholar, CQ 30 (1980), 153–8CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Cf. Roscher 3.1.570, s.v. ‘Nyx’ for references to the relevant texts.

4 These would not have included Virgil: cf. most recently Campbell, M., A Commentary on Quintus Smyrnaeus Posthomerica XII (Mnem. Suppl. 71 [Leiden, 1981]), pp. 115–17Google Scholar, with references to earlier works.

5 Cf. Aen. 8.369 nox ruit et fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis.